{"product_id":"tainna-the-unseen-ones-short-stories","title":"Tainna, The Unseen Ones, Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTainna, The Unseen Ones, Short Stories, by Inuit author and educator Norma Dunning, draws on both lived experience and cultural memory to bring together six powerful new short stories centred on modern-day Inuk characters. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded, young to elderly, and even from alive to deceased, Dunning’s characters are united by shared feelings of alienation, displacement and loneliness resulting from their experiences in southern Canada. In Tainna\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emeaning “the unseen ones” and pronounced \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDa-e-nn-a\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—a fraught reunion between sisters Sila and Amak ends in an uneasy understanding. From the spirit realm, Chevy Bass watches over his imperilled grandson, Kunak. And in the title story, the broken-hearted Bunny wanders onto a golf course on a freezing night, when a flock of geese stand vigil until her body is discovered by a kind stranger. Norma Dunning’s masterful storytelling uses humour and incisive detail to create compelling characters who discover themselves in a hostile land where prejudice, misogyny and inequity are most often found hidden in plain sight. There, they must rely on their wits, artistic talent, senses of humour and spirituality­ for survival; and there, too, they find solace in shining moments of reconnection with their families and communities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"auto\" class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m\"\u003e2021 winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Douglas \u0026 McIntyre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48168739012771,"sku":"kow1789922978264","price":10.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/7595\/8435\/files\/tainna-the-unseen-ones-short-stories_1.jpg?v=1789922983","url":"https:\/\/stretchfitq.shop\/products\/tainna-the-unseen-ones-short-stories","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}